2017-06-12

reading the basics

Today we decided that the newly-christened Astronomical Data Group at Flatiron will start a reading group in methods. Partially because of the words of David Blei (Columbia) a few weeks ago, we decided to start with BDA3, part 1. We will do two chapters a week, and also meet twice a week to discuss them. I haven't done this in a long time, but we realized that it will help our research to do more basic reading.

This week, Maggie Lieu (ESA) is visiting Justin Alsing (Flatiron) to work (in part) on Euclid imaging analysis. We spent some time discussing how we might build a training set for cosmic rays, asteroids, and other time-variable phenomena in imaging, in order to train some kind of model. We discussed the complications of making a ground-truth data set out of existing imaging. Next up: Look at what's in the HST Archive.